Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tanks to counter the threat of the 25,000 T-72s and tens of thousands of other armored vehicles the Soviets will have by that year. But the Pentagon's goals are at the mercy of congressional cutbacks and increased production costs. Meanwhile, the Soviets are developing a brand-new tank, the T-80, that is meant to surpass the XM1. According to U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Army Percy Pierre, a successor to the T-80 is probably already "on the drawing boards of one of the Soviet tank plants, where thousands of engineers spend their days doing...
Lader disagrees. The American Left, he says, originates from diverse ideologies rather than being dominated by the Soviet brand of Marxist Leninism. The Radical movement has been essentially pragmatic, nurtured by American needs and not by a closed system imposed from abroad. Though the Left since 1960 may appear disturbingly complex and even incoherent, it developed its own character by emphasizing immediate results and direct action, usually individual action. But what Marxists may label mere civil liberties or reformist movements, Lader cities as significant in that they "sowed the seeds of rebellion" that often led to far more radical organizing...
...students' attack on the U.S. embassy, which he applauded but claims he did not order, as a way of directing popular attention away from the country's increasing problems. It gave him once again a means of presenting all difficulties as having been caused by the U.S., to brand all his opponents?believers in parliamentary government, ethnic separatists, Muslims who questioned his interpretations of Islamic law?tools of the CIA. When the United Nations and the World Court condemned the seizure, he labeled these bodies stooges of the enemy. It was Iran against the world?indeed, all Islam against...
...been a Marxist ever since his days as a student at Kabul University; his graduation was delayed by a stint in prison for left-wing agitation. His Parcham Party always leaned more dependably toward Moscow than Taraki's more broadly based faction, which sometimes espoused a Maoist-flavored brand of Marxism. Says former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Robert Neumann: "Karmal is the original Communist, a dyed-in-the-wool article...